[plt-scheme] planet require idea

From: Jacob Matthews (jacobm at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 20 13:07:53 EDT 2008

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

>  +2.  Forcing a `:' delimiter is making people remember more.  The
>  common case (no version) should be as simple as possible.

The common case shouldn't be no version, it should a major and minor
version (or just a major version).

-jacob

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>  > Also, major.minor is how we write version numbers informally anyway,
>  > it make sense to reuse the notation here, assuming we aren't allowing
>  > decimal literals in our major version numbers.
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>  (In that case, using two `:'s make sense.)
>
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